Renegade British Catholic bishop Richard Williamson was fined 10,000 euros ($14,500) by a German court Friday for Holocaust denial in a case that has deeply embarrassed the Vatican.

The court in the southern German city of Regensburg convicted Williamson of inciting racial hatred for stating in a television interview aired in January 2009 that only "200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps".